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Publication: The Black Abbot of Puthuum

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  • Publication: The Black Abbot of PuthuumPublication Record # 350619
  • Author: Clark Ashton Smith
  • Date: 2007-00-00
  • Publisher: RAS Press
  • Price:
    $49.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 40
  • Format:
    unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
  • Type: CHAPBOOK
  • Notes:
    • From WorldCat: "Complete version, from a manuscript found in the collection of Robert H. Barlow, of a story originally published in an abridged version in the May 1936 issue of Weird tales. Includes tipped-in ink-jet plate reproducing Virgil Finlay's original color artwork for the illustration printed in black and white in Weird tales."
    • "Produced in an edition limited to 250 copies, of which this is number ..."--Colophon.
    • "The RAS Press was founded in 1961 by Roy A. Squires who produced beautiful booklets until 1987 ... Under the guidance and assistance of Gerald Lange of the Bieler Press, Terence McVicker has revived the RAS Press ..."--Colophon. There is, however, no evidence in records for Squires' printings that he ever used the phrase "RAS Press".
    • Typographic design by Gerald Lange.
  • External IDs:
Chapbook Title: The Black Abbot of Puthuum • chapbook by Clark Ashton Smith

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